Fighting forest fires with technology

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4 • 221 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI For Good Lab, tells Tech Life how artificial intelligence can help predict wildfires.

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0:48.1	Welcome to TechLife, the global program devoted to how technology is affecting you.
0:53.8	With me, Zoe Kleinman. This week, have you ever
0:56.7	thought about what it takes to fight a forest fire? We find out how technology can make a difference
1:01.9	in predicting wildfires. What we can do is we can use technology to help us understand the
1:08.3	probabilities of forest fires from both like from a calendar perspective
1:12.6	but also location.
1:14.6	Driverless cars are popping up on streets around the world, but not everyone welcomes them
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